Dolores Lima

Teaching Associate Professor, Spanish Language Program Coordinator

Contact

1317C Cathedral of Learning
dlima@pitt.edu

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dolores Lima earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from University of Maryland under the direction of Prof. Jorge Aguilar Mora. She has taught Spanish language, culture and literature courses at Southern Connecticut State University, Montgomery College, University of Maryland and The Catholic University of America. Since 2015, she teaches and serves as Spanish Language Program Coordinator at the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.

She has been a faculty member of the Middlebury College Summer School for more than ten years. In 2022, she taught for the Master in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. The same year, she co-taught and co-directed with Ana Paula Carvalho the Seminar and Field Trip Program in Manizales, Colombia, organized by Center of Latin American Studies (CLAS).

Dolores Lima´s research and teaching interests include contemporary Latin American fiction, affect in literature, representations of laughter and, the narratives of the body. As coordinator of the Spanish Language Program, she focuses on curriculum design, Spanish for heritage learners and, professional development for teaching assistants and instructors.

 

TEACHING

  • Latin American Seminar & Field Trip Colombia (Artsc 1990 and 1991)
  • Latin American Social Movements (Span 1456)
  • Introduction to Hispanic Literatures and Cultural Studies (Span 1055)
  • Overview of Latin American Literature (Span 1280)
  • Spanish for Heritage Learners (Span 0126)
  • Spanish Language and Culture courses (Span 0101, 0115, 0103, 0104, 0120)

 

Academic Services

Faculty Liaison for the program College in High School (CHS)

Grant Selection Committee Center of Latin American Studies

Degrees

  • PhD in Latin American Literature, University of Maryland.
  • MA in Spanish Language and Literature, University of Maryland

Awards

  • “Proposal for Redesigning Elementary Spanish and Portuguese Courses”. Grant for $ 10,000 awarded by The Dietrich School Curricular Innovation Fund. University of Pittsburgh. Summer 2018

Selected Publications

“La escritura intestinal de Witold Gombrowicz: Contagios y conjuros”.  Estudos Teóricos e Críticos em Literatura. Ed. by Naiara Sales Santos. Universidad Federal de Maranhão. En Prensa. (2022)

“La risa blanca de Virgilio Piñera: Inmunidad y soberanía”. Hispamérica, 132. (2016): 43-49

“La novela calidoscópica: Afecto y representación en Antonio Di Benedetto.” En Caballero Vázquez, Miguel & Rodríguez Carranza, Luz & Soto van der Plas, Christina (eds.)  (2014): Imágenes y realismos en América Latina. Leiden: Almenara, 149-163

“De golpes y caídas: El humor accidentado de Macedonio Fernández.” Miríada Hispánica 7 (2013): 137-155

Areas of Specialization

Twentieth-century Latin American literature, Humor and Laughter, Latin American Social Movements, Spanish Language Teaching and Methodology, Spanish Heritage Learners.